Sentence examples for acts of oblivion from inspiring English sources

While his colleagues made works that could sell, however outrageous, Landy deliberately performed acts of oblivion.

"It is not, I think, fanciful to say that such meetings are both Acts of Oblivion and Acts of Remembrance".

Amnesty, in criminal law, sovereign act of oblivion or forgetfulness (from Greek amnēsia) for past acts, granted by a government to persons who have been guilty of crimes.

As lord chancellor, Hyde pressed for a generous Act of Oblivion, which spared most republicans from royalist vengeance, and for speedy provision of royal revenue.

Soon after his restoration in 1660, Charles proclaimed a so-called "Act of Oblivion", which assured his subjects that all past affiliations to Oliver Cromwell and the Commonwealth would be forgotten.

"If Europe is to be saved from infinite misery and, indeed, from final doom, there must be this act of faith in the European family and this act of oblivion against all the crimes and follies of the past, and the free peoples of Europe must rise to the height of these resolves of the soul and of the instinct of the spirit of man," Churchill said.

Late in the evening of Tuesday 16th, another huge US name was teetering on the brink of oblivion - and this time, the US government acted.

As Hannah Arendt observed of acts of courage that may seem futile in the light of early death: "The holes of oblivion do not exist.

The holes of oblivion do not exist.

But the threat of oblivion was constant.

It became a tower of oblivion.